Equalized rail-joint.



B. G. BRAINE. EQUALIZED RAIL JOlNT ICATIDN FILED "AR 27 191 APPL v 1,246,861. I PatentedNov. 20, 1917.

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' opposite- UNITED STATES PATENT on monor'r 6. sum, or new You, N. Y-, Assienon 'ro mug r,

v or NEW YORK, N. 'Y., A conrone'rzoN ol fvunws g v r EQUALIZED nm-a'dm'r.

To all whom it may concern;

' New York cit in the county of New fork andStateofiew York, have invented certain new end useful Improvements in Equalized Rail-Joints, Of'WhlOh the following is u specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in rail joints and has for its object a novel arrangement and combination of the joint parts to more nearly e ueli'ze the bend- -stresses imposed by who -loeds.

In the average mil joint the joint bars are not in such equilihrmm with the rail as to obtain a uniform distribution of the loading strains, and it is, therefore, the purpose of the present invention to correct this condition, to a very substantial and practical de "ee, by so disposing the joint bars with re ere-nee to eachother and to the rail as tov equalize the effect of the difl'erences in loco.- tion. of the neutral axes ofthe hers and of the rail, thereby enabling the joint to withstand, uniformly, the upward and down- "ward stresses imposed by wheel-lends."

WVith the foregoingpractical object in.

view, the invention consists in the novel relation of joint purts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated and claimed.

Though susceptible of embodiment in Various ty es of rail joints, and with various forms 0 rail-splices, certain preferred and practical emb irnents of'the invention are shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a simple form of angle our rail joint constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the joint Like references designate-corresponding ports in the several figures of'the drawings.

The distinctive feature of the present 1nventien is such an arrangement of e pair of chat bars, ofv the" same uniform section, t at the mean of their respective neutral axes will be centralized and made to Specification oi Lem" Patent. Applioltion filed March 27, 1918. Scilfl No. 87,039,

The effect of this reversal, in tliti'rlati line of the fishing space.

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correspond, app ximntel with theneutrcl guns of the rei For in nee, m Fig. 2 of the drawings'ithe'umnertlsi I' en dif, designate the opposite 'oint blir's of rail oint. As shown these wo j "t'i nre uplicutesin design and B'ectio I bar-occupies en inverted position, that. the said opposite bars are rev'rqel'yof the opposite bars injthejoin 'T iS' to tmllze t e mean of their respective seem exes, To illustrate this-the oihthltffi, .h mg the section of the bars 11ind' 2- illus tinted in the drawings, will hive theiri neutrnl exes disposed, respectively, below" and? nbove the horizontal eenterline'ofethe-fisli If mg s'pnces'of the rails. In Fig. 1'2 'oftheft fi dl'mvings the horizontal neutral a'x'is-ofltho bar 1 IS desi noted by the line 1 RCA. which lies be ow the center Iine T- CL L. 'o, i

the fishing space of the rails, endfthe'liorizoutal neutral axis of the bar 2 is designated 10.

by the line. 2 N. A. which lies ebove'fithe. center line C. L. of the 'fishing'spacefof'the rail. The said neutral nxes 'ofthe-liiirs 1' end I 2, on account of the uniformsectionzo'fthe latter, are disposed at substantially-equal? -x distances from the center, line oftliefishin g 4 spaces, so that the relative reversodf-reletio'n of the two bnrs'ser've's to centrelizeitheineah of their neutralakes to-makej approximately, with 'the neat rail, which usuallylies a'di'a'een 's' y this feature thatithejpjresent invention 'i complishes'the ohjectfefrfedji'olr From the foregoing,it'-isthat-the "86 construction u-nd'theiniportentadv"nteges-- j of the improvement ,in' mil ]"oint s"i-;will{- be apparent without furthe'rfdescription.-

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1. A reil joint-includin'g-io the: un- 0'0 symmetrical about wertl here, one of saidbulre he'iiifi1 3. i kmiljoint'including of opposite unsymmetgical bars of the same sectlongmd one of whleh hers is inverted to therehyeause the meemo'f theneutrel axes of the two bars to eoi'respond efiproximetely ,with the neutral axis of the ru A.- A m join? e1u i PP my metrie'el" dint 'bers ,of similar section having their horizontal neutral axes disposed respectively above and below, and at substentielly equal distances from, the hori zon- 10 tel centex: line of the fishin spaces.

In testlr nony whereof I ereunto effix my signature 1n the presence of two witnesses.

BANCROFT G. BRAINE. Witnesses;

E. K. Kmsmmn, C. A. DISBROW. 

